Editorial: Local efforts combat bullying must lead
The Gazette argues bullying is a local issue best addressed by parents communities and police with school staff. It questions a Braley Harkin federal bill to fund school programs and data systems, urging collaboration over a federal Band Aid and taxpayer expense.
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Call for a Constitutional third party to fix deficits
Letters urge a new Constitutional Party as a remedy to fiscal chaos and two party stalemate. They criticize deficits, wealth effects of quantitative easing, and tax policy, while advocating reform of health care funding and taxes.
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Alarmist or alertist keeps public safe in dangerous times
James F Burns argues for heightened vigilance amid modern terrorism. He recalls Belfast gun patrols and Boston marathon danger, urging readers to notice suspicious people and packages while defending alertism as prudent, not panicked, thinking.
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Branstad faces warnings as 2013 run nears
In 2010 Branstad won a fifth term amid voter weariness with the Culver administration and views of Branstad as a steady manager. By 2013 two warnings loom: speeding incidents involving his patrol SUV and a Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showing 54 percent approval but 55 percent saying he has been in office long enough.
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Culver
Iowa
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